skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Longterm unemployed people turn to the armed forces for employment. Intentional?
JSON command-line toolbox (jq, gron, jc, etc.)
Not specifically about Neovim, but I'm curious about the Java situation in general. To a first approximation IntelliJ is what everyone uses. I'm a VSCode user for everything but it seems basically the wrong decision to try to not use IntelliJ for Java. And mixed Kotlin/Java projects are impossible currently in VSCode with the RedHat extension.

So my question is, what are projects like Cursor going to do? Surely the solution isn't to assume that JetBrains will do enough innovation in AI IDE features in the next year or two to prevent is wanting to try out all the other AI IDE innovation?
Yes I remember, that and episodes on cosmetic surgery to broaden the appeal
If I can't see the books I move on. The only reason people hide books is because they are bad. You can't expect a bunch of mushrooms to help you grow a company. Employees deserve to keep tabs on the financial health of the company.

Last company I was at was an ESOP. Talk about a scam. They are under no obligation to let employees monitor the health of their "retirement plan." It's a tax shelter for business owners who want to retire. Coming from a company that had open books I had assumed that ESOP members would have some rights, nope.

Having left that shit show for a startup I'm getting regular financial health and funding updates constantly.

Don't be a mushroom.
I'll listen to audiobooks while running on a treadmill but not when running outside.
Right, and then we put down roots. People move. some of the people who stetted their have moved on again, but a core remains with roots. Maybe those people will all move away, but I doubt it - humans still live in Africa.
Do they all support the latest standards ?
Yes, yes, you are NASA.

The rest of us go with Postgres, or SQL server, or Oracle, but definitely don't have to prepare our systems to run in PostgreSQL on Mondays, on SQL server on Tuesdays and so on.
Personally I reject this false dichotomy. If you identify as an introvert or extrovert, ask yourself if the label is helping you move toward the person you want to be. If it’s not, then you can choose to drop the label.
> no ink was spilled

Maybe I print all of these with an inkjet.

> That you were wrong

I'm sorry, where was I wrong? Where did I ever actually accuse any particular person of living in one place or the other? And in the end you do live in an urban area by your acknowledgement. I've only been asking for people to ensure they're really using the right terms.

> Agreed. So let's not invent a definition of rural that says that small towns and villages "easily get classified as urban or suburban"

Yes, let's not invent one. We'll just encourage the improper usage.

> The environment you describe would not be called a small town or a village by anyone

A surprising percentage of people living in areas like that do. I personally know some.
(From a sibling comment of mine)

I wish Spotify would let me "upgrade" individual albums to purchases. Like I'd still pay for my monthly sub, but if I particularly like a track or artist, I could buy that album for a discounted price (like $5, ideally) and the artist would get like 95% of that revenue.

It doesn't really solve the problem of "your music is so generic nobody wants to buy it and nobody can tell you apart from the other similar artists", but maybe it doesn't need to? There's already enough excellent, good, and mediocre music out there to last me several lifetimes even if nothing else gets made. There's way more supply than demand. Everybody wants to be creative, I guess, but not everyone is actually good at it? Maybe it's OK for most of that music to fall by the wayside and only the 1% of the 1% to really make it. Streaming is a good proving ground, and upgrades could help the really good artists earn a bit more.

To me it's not really that different from the infinite supply of shitty books, articles, games, movies, software etc. Most of it just isn't good enough to stand out.
There is still good cinema and television, it's just shockingly difficult to find.

The first person who figures out how to sort the wheat from the chaff and does so with no interior motive could be a millionaire immediately.
>Where's the Valve of music, offering a great service for both consumers and producers?

How do platforms like spotify not offer "great service for both consumers and producers"? They offer the same 70/30 split as steam, and I'm not aware of any widespread consumer discontent for spotify, aside from maybe their reputation for underpaying their artists (see previous point).
I think it depends on which kind of bandwidth we're talking about. I can follow a talk-show no problem while doing laundry / the dishes / vacuum / iron. Keyword being "talk". But I can't look at the screen too often.

So, watching a sitcom or similar where the characters' body language or facial expressions are important is an exercise in frustration.
Have you also noticed all the recalls on pretty much everything we eat? Huge sign that people are not working.
Financially, Saudi Arabia is flying by the seat of its pants. But how longer?
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Oh they are always great in the press releases :)

And it's not like the ships are badly designed. The Kuznetsov sister ship that was a casino for a while and now is Chinese works perfectly well.
The problem with Russian navy is lack of maintenance, total disregard of safety and procedures, 0 fucks given about human life, uneducated, drunken crews and widespread corruption.

I recommend reading about K-429 - a nuclear submarine that sunk not once but twice. First time because it was ordered to do exercises while the hull was in maintenance. Despite protests of the crew. Second time in dock during repairs after it got recovered. Worker negligence apparently.

Fun fact - it's not the only Russian nuclear submarine that participated in 2 disasters.
Would like to see an option for highlighting sleeper train routes. Eight hours sitting on a hard plastic seat is not the same as that in a bed.
Are jeans undignified or disrespectful?
Most people go to college not very far from where they grew up. That is in the same state or only one state away. Then they move back home afterwards. (or they fall in love with someone, and move near that person's family thus getting a new family)
Can you name a good apocalyptic movie? I'm really struggling to come up with one. Twister, sort of, and that's neither good nor apocalyptic really.

Edit: Twelve Monkeys. I think that counts.
About 20 years ago, I visited most of Europe’s major cities over the course of a two-month trip, traveling primarily by night train. Each overnight ride saved me the cost of a hostel or guesthouse, and I’d arrive in a new city each morning feeling refreshed because of the train’s sleeping accommodations.

There used to be a similar service between Toronto and Montreal (both directions), where the train would pause for several hours midway so passengers would arrive at around 7:30 a.m. well-rested.

I’ve taken that route as well, and it’s remarkable how much you see while traveling by train. You pass through countless towns, villages, and beautiful scenery—experiences you simply can’t get from flying.
Context Chips in Survey Design: "Okay, but how does it feel?"
That makes more sense. Sorry about that.
That place is going to be even more of a mess once the money runs out and the head chopping starts up in earnest.
Ah, an exception that truly proves the rule. A sequel stuck in production hell for thirty-six years. Granted, it appears to have the mid-budget of what we used to see plenty of (in films such as comedies), but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the Sydney Sweeney rom-com that also came out this year are rarities; it’s been widely known for years that comedies have fallen out of favor from the cinema. (Some say MCU-style superhero quip fests replaced them.) Sample coverage:

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/6-reasons-why-comedy-in-fil...

https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/comedy-movie-not-dead-busi...

https://whatculture.com/film/it-s-official-movie-comedies-ar...

There are opportunities to laugh at the movies, but they tend not to be specifically comedies.
My bad, thank you !
What’s nice is that you can do it in steps - you may have a hard time proving full specification, but you can prove absence of bad behavior like buffer overruns, etc and go from there.
I'm the opposite of woke but he's not wrong that suits are a western thing and and enforcing it as if it's universal is a bit pushy
The russians weren't looking for an agreement.

They were looking to kill Zelensky and control the entire country.

In fact, they still are.

It was a war from the beginning.
Demonstrably, humans do think, and arguably demonstrably, early life would go down a path of simple predictions (in the form of stimulus -> response). And demonstrably, evolution did lead to human level intelligence.

So I don’t think there needs to be a semantic debate over where in the process intelligence started. The early responses to stimulus is a form of prediction, but not one that requires thinking.

There can be much disagreement that prediction is at the core of intelligence, or if optimizing ability to predict leads to intelligence. But from the established facts, it is the case the higher forms of life were bootstrapped from the lower ones, and also our biochemistry does have reward functions. Successfully triggering those rewards will generally hinge on making successful predictions. Take from that what you will.
I wonder how many users Emacs has lost to VS Code over the past few years. I'm one of them.

Feels sad. And also potentially shortsighted.
(a) is the real problem for many of the musicians who have vocally complained about this. If you look at most songs produced by record labels, you will see 5 songwriter credits, 10 producers, and a whole band to pay. Not to mention the army of recording engineers and the marketing staff.
It would appear the description of the last water feature in the video
"07:38 Gravity Defying Medieval Technology"

is either under-diagramed or under-explained.

Does someone have a reference for this? I am finding some references on wiki about hydrorams or airlift pumps... which make much more sense.
The passport can retain the same ID. It’s only its certification that changes. This is analogous to how a web server doesn’t need to change its domain name when the TLS certificate has to be replaced.

And presumably, you would still have to renew your passport every ten years or so anyway.
There's a spectrum. notepad.exe, vi, emacs/vim/notepad++, vscode, idea. Every new layer adds more features and adds more bloat. You can upgrade to the next layer by installing enough extensions (if editor allows it and those extensions exist). You can certainly turn your bare vim into vscode comparable editor with enough extensions. And you can certainly install enough extensions into vscode to make it comparable with idea.

An important thing is to find a personal sweet spot. For me, using Idea with hundred plugins is just not worth it. Spring plugin comes with thousands of features, but when I disable it, miss very few things, and the bloat is real: slow start, lots of new menu items and icons, new bugs.

I, personally, prefer to use editor on steroids like vscode, with full language-aware support. At the same time I'm using external terminal a lot, doing builds and stuff there. So IDE for me is an entire computer and vscode is part of this IDE.
I've been using YT Music for years and have all my playlists there, but am now considering switching to Spotify because _everyone_ I know sends me Spotify links. I then also feel bad sharing YT Music links when their entire ecosystem (car audio etc) is centered on Spotify, and YouTube is likely to play an ad if they're not a subscriber. Music sharing is kind of a big thing for me and it sucks that I'm now paying for a service I don't use just to share links with people >.<
>or staying in the same small town for your whole life.

I'm living this now. We moved back to have kids near friends and family after college. The judgment I get from people for being a towny is ASTOUNDING. I have to justify the reason for being here and talk about how I've lived in other places for a few years for people to take me seriously. It's ridiculous.

Why shouldn't I bring my experience back to fix the problems in this area? What's the problem with that?
Gut reaction to the results: swearing because you feel you should have got it, and frustration because you feel it's too hard.
runtime matters
So your argument it’s simply not possible to feed and maintain decency for 8B people?

Communism tried it, failed therefore not possible.

The global west hyper-capitalism doesn’t seem to be fixing the problem either, and as there isn’t a third way possible.

QED.

Good to know, I’ll go on partying like there is no tomorrow.

Thanks to large corporations, shareholder interests and various other self-interested minorities, there will be no third way since that would imply the rich would have to give some of the pie away to the poor.

Now what part of the current destructive systems haven’t we got under control? Or better asked, what parts of the system are god given and can’t be changed? Are we making societal rules, norms and laws or are these given to us by the universe - unalterable?

The fact is that this entire mess is self inflicted. But it’s the best we can do and therefore we’re stuck with it.

Lack of imagination and courage to do something different could also be a cause.
Eliza did fool some humans. Which is why the Turing test was always a flawed notion, one that says more about the human than the computer.

That aside, nothing you said about LLMs doesn't apply to humans as well.
Family and friends have a bigger impact on ell being than you think. A lot of people in "dirty cities" are shown to live a happier and more fulfilling life with less when they have a strong community they're part of.
How would you describe a state of enlightenment?
Technical Debt Is a Management Failure
I rather like the idea that deep in the platonic realm of pure mathematics, there is something that is alive.
Jeans are pants and wearing them isn't sloppy.
another solution for fuzzy finding is telescope.nvim https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

the thing i like the most about it is the amount of plugins you can add (including things like looking at nvim's paste ring).
Why not? You might have to redo lots of phys work but essentially all of the RTL will be the same and that's the vast majority of the work.

Intel doesn't have demand because they only make Intel chips, and they haven't been doing too well lately.
The real problem is most people later in life are full of friends and thus don't really need more. They have and used those social skills in school (including college), but then settled into life and made friends. As one friend moves away they will need a different one, but that doesn't happen often and so they don't need to make friends. It isn't that they are unfriendly, just that they already have a social life as full as they want it.
And if you look at e.g. Bachelor's enrollment in CS it's somehow still rising in Fall of 2024: https://nscresearchcenter.org/stay-informed/

That's gonna be one rude awakening.
> but I would like to point out to you that Atheism is itself a religion: It's a belief in no god(s), a belief in refuting god(s).

This definition of atheism is non-standard, and dilutes the meaning of "religion".

Let it be noted that almost all atheists will disagree with you that it is a religion. Not all of them, of course, because atheism isn't an organized movement with a doctrine which states what is and isn't "true" atheism.

It's not a religion, though, by any reasonable definition of the term.
Right, so then why don't the economics of Spotify work out if similar margins work in the games and apps industries? Is music really that much more expensive to make than video games? Are music labels much greedier than game publishers? What's different about music that makes artists especially poorly paid vs games?

Or maybe it's just that Spotify is a subscription split between all the listened tracks whereas Steam is individual purchases? It's probably be fairer to compare the economics to Microsoft Gamepass.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Content made for disengaged viewers is disengaging.
Nowhere[1], if you're in Norway.

I jest a little, but it's so bad here we've started to call it "bus replacement service" when the train is not cancelled, rather than "rail replacement service" when the train is cancelled.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/full-togstans-i-hele-norge-grunnet-...
Jokes on them, my thing is bad movies.
Haven't looked in a while. That's great news then! Rust steals a lot of thunder these days though.
Some days ago I tried to install from the PPA repository, but it appears Ubuntu jammy derivatives are not supported yet. Is there a PPA update estimate?

I read Python stole its generators from Icon. Being an enthusiastic user of the itertools module, was curious to see how do generators work on Unicon/Icon.
Empirical Study of Test Generation with LLM's
Is that actually a useful distinction? All open core means is that a project has a true OSS core version plus non-open parts that provide extra features beyond what the OSS core offers.

It can be the case that the OSS part of an open core project has the same or more features than a competing project that is all OSS.
Here’s the EvoSuite that they refer to:

https://www.evosuite.org/evosuite/
> Implementation of a surgical swear jar initiative

Yes, the main goal of a surgical site is to avoid swearing

> our findings are not applicable to children younger than 4 years for whom the buzz wire game’s small parts may represent a choking hazard, although these individuals are unlikely to be currently employed in secondary care.

Now, that's a point. I'd avoid a 0-3 toddler if i could choose so before some surgery.
Just a reminder that LibreChat exists. It's FOSS, and lets you bring your own APIs key for all the LLM providers. The UI is excellent.

You can run it locally, or as I do on a $5/month Linode server. I don't want to pay ~20/month for each LLM provider, so I put $5 to $10 on my Anthropic and OpenAI API accounts every couple months, and that lasts me plenty long.

You get to save all your chats, change models mid-chat, view code artifacts, create presets, and much more.

If you don't know how to set up something like this, ask ChatGPT or Claude. They will walk you through it, and you will learn a useful skill. It's shockingly easy.

https://librechat.ai

https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat
> You can't cross borders with it,

Ok so it's not a passport. What is being described by the article are just national identities based on physical cards. Estonia has been doing that for a very long time as well.
What was different about it compared to the neovim conf?
In general, although transparency on current AirPods is good, I really just am not comfortable with having music or other audio playing in my ears when I'm moving around outside--and certainly not in an urban setting.
Nitter also offers better UX for those who just want to read a Twitter thread and not interact with it. It's been like that even before the Musk acquisition.
> boarding Russian civilian ships in the Baltic Sea

The ship that was boarded, is registered in the Cook Islands (an associated state of New Zealand), owned and operated by a company in United Arab Emirates. And the ship's crew were Georgian and Indian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_S
Physicist Says We're Using Maths Wrong
You're describing a fictitious brand of atheism, one that I -- surrounded by friends and family who are atheists -- have never observed.

Atheists simply don't believe in any gods. Lowercase "gods", it's not exclusive to the Christian God, which a specific god we also don't believe exists.
Putin apologizes to Azerbaijani leader for tragic incident of the crashed plane
Informal verification.
Am I wrong in thinking that the visual below “Finally with 5 the self-similarity continues as expected” is wrong? I’m thinking that the second-to-right and rightmost subtrees need to be larger, to have a sequence of four and five nodes respectively in their rightmost branches.
Penn referenced it in an interview somewhere, with the impression he was citing a well-known stage magic quip.

Essentially: there are two ways to make something appear magical.

- One is a gimmick (physical or otherwise), which is performed so well as to be invisible to the audience.

- The other is simply doing something effortlessly that seems impossible without spending years of practice... but having actually spent years of practice on it.

He cited some Teller trick that Teller brute forced by just practicing the movements for an entire year until he could do them reliably and flawlessly.